neighborhood

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A district or area with distinctive characteristics.
• noun The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area.
• noun The surrounding area; vicinity.
• noun Informal Approximate amount or range.
• noun Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor.
• noun Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The condition or quality of being neighbors; the state of dwelling or being situated nigh or near; proximity; nearness: as, neighborhood often promotes friendship.
• noun Conduct as a neighbor.
• noun The kindliness and mutual readiness to be friendly which arise out of the condition of being neighbors; the reciprocity and mutual helpfulness becoming to neighbors; neighborly feelings and acts.
• noun The place or locality lying next or nigh to some specified place; adjoining district; vicinity: as he lived in my neighborhood: frequently used figuratively.
• noun Those living in the vicinity or adjoining locality; neighbors collectively; as, thė fire alarmed the whole neighborhood.
• noun A district or locality, especially when considered with reference to its inhabitants or their interests: as, a fashionable neighborhood; a malarious neighborhood.
• noun Synonyms and Neighborhood, Vicinity, Proximity. The first two differ from proximity in being used concretely: as, the explosion was heard throughout the neighborhood or vicinity (but not proximity). Neighborhood is closer and livelier than vicinity; proximity is the closest nearness. Neighborhood regards not only place, but persons; vicinity only the place; hence we say he lived in the vicinity of New York or the Hudson, but he lived in the neighborhood of Irving; his house was in close proximity to the one that was on fire. See adjacent.
• noun In mathematics, the part of a line, surface, space, or other locus in quo so near to a correlative point that from its utmost parts to that point it has everywhere a certain given character with respect to which it is the neighborhood of that point. Thus, to say that the air is condensed in the neighborhood of a certain point, is to say that after one has approached it sufficiently near, the nearer one approaches the more condensed is the air up to the point itself.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
• noun A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors.
• noun The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other.
• noun obsolete The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other
• noun A nearby area.
• noun The inhabitants of a residential area.
• noun A division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
• noun An approximate amount.
• noun uncountable The quality of physical proximity.
• noun obsolete The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
• noun topology The neighborhood of a point x is... (depending on the author):

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a surrounding or nearby region
• noun the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
• noun an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
• noun people living near one another